Lysva

Lysva lies in a deep valley on the river of the same name, west of the Ural range. A settlement was known here by the middle of the seventeenth century. In the second half of the eighteenth century the surrounding lands passed by inheritance from the Stroganovs to Princess Varvara Shakhovskaya. She obtained permission to build an iron foundry, and construction began in 1785. Its blast furnace produced its first iron in December 1787, around which the factory settlement continued to grow.